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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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Optional newline after a Page Break element if followed by a paragraph element

When a Paragraph element immediately follows a Page Break element, an extra newline is added after the page break. One possible solution around this is to place the Page Break inside the following Paragraph element, however this isn't always possi...

Master page properties "header from top" and "footer from bottom" should be able to take value from variable or script

In RPE Studio 6.0.6, master page "header from top" and "footer from bottom" properties cannot be variables, unlike top margin for example. We should be able to use external variables to specify these values, or why not, a script.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 0 Future consideration

User defined colors in RPE template elements

Is is very easy to lose track of where you are in a large and/or complex RPE template.ᅠ My suggestion is to allow the user to set the background color in an RPE element to simply give the user a visual reference of where they are.ᅠ This would be v...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Future consideration

Access to Doors OSLC Requirements with Rational Document Builder

We generate a Report with which lists the Object Identifier and Text of DOORS Requirements. To avoid use the doors-client on the server, we want to access the DOORS requirements using DOORS OSLC interface. According to Support, there is no officia...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 1 Not under consideration

Enable publishing of embedded OLE objects to HTML format by accessing exported OLE object via hyperlink

When publishing documents to HTML format, embedded OLE objects are thumbnailed and otherwise ignored. The consumer of the exported HTML cannot see any details nor interact with the OLE object. It would be helpful for Publishing to export a /ref/ f...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Future consideration

macOS support (new Apple M1 processors)

- Apple introduced new ARM process architecture - Windows cannot be run anymore locally as Virtual Machine - Users have to use Windows 365 Cloud (which is not a supported OS, PUB runs very slow) -> Please support native PUB for macOS with new A...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 0 Future consideration